Hominids and their Characteristics Australopithecus: Their brains were one third the size of normal humans now. They started walking on two feet. They were first seen in Africa. Homo habilis: There brains were half the size of normal humans. They also used early stone tools. Homo erectus: They learned how to handle fire, and they migrated out of Africa to Asia and Europe. Homo sapiens:They migrated around the world, and has different language. We are Homo Sapiens.
Aspects of Daily life effects notes:
Food Supplies: Now people do not need to wander around to hunt and gather food, but they can focus on growing their food now. Now people also domesticate animals, so we do not need to hunt animals.
Occupations: Now people don't need to go around hunting, but they can develop their own skills like sewing, painting, house building, etc.
Population: Now people live in bigger groups, and work together, therefore the quality of things they do got better, like making tools together in a group made better quality.
Resources: Now they found better resources, and often traveled a long way to get these resources. Now they also trade more often to get good resources.
Shelter: Now people live in more stable homes. Now the houses even had areas for throwing out trash, and now people live permanently in one shelter.
Technology: Now people figured out better tools, and better resources to make them.
Vocabulary
Neolithic Period: the latest Stone Age period
Paleolithic Period: The oldest period in the Stone Age
Hunter-gatherers: People who hunt and gather food to live and eat
Domestication:Changing plants and animals to become more beneficial to people
Agriculture: The act of planting and growing plants
Hominids and their Characteristics Australopithecus: Their brains were one third the size of normal humans now. They started walking on two feet. They were first seen in Africa. Homo habilis: There brains were half the size of normal humans. They also used early stone tools. Homo erectus: They learned how to handle fire, and they migrated out of Africa to Asia and Europe. Homo sapiens:They migrated around the world, and has different language. We are Homo Sapiens.
Aspects of Daily life effects notes:
Food Supplies: Now people do not need to wander around to hunt and gather food, but they can focus on growing their food now. Now people also domesticate animals, so we do not need to hunt animals.
Occupations: Now people don't need to go around hunting, but they can develop their own skills like sewing, painting, house building, etc.
Population: Now people live in bigger groups, and work together, therefore the quality of things they do got better, like making tools together in a group made better quality.
Resources: Now they found better resources, and often traveled a long way to get these resources. Now they also trade more often to get good resources.
Shelter: Now people live in more stable homes. Now the houses even had areas for throwing out trash, and now people live permanently in one shelter.
Technology: Now people figured out better tools, and better resources to make them.
Vocabulary
Neolithic Period: the latest Stone Age period
Paleolithic Period: The oldest period in the Stone Age
Hunter-gatherers: People who hunt and gather food to live and eat
Domestication:Changing plants and animals to become more beneficial to people
Agriculture: The act of planting and growing plants
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